So I am guessing my audience violated the general rule of "look, don't touch" on this one? I really feel like I shouldn't have to say that every time.
I'm not condemning anyone, but in general, if I:
Screencap: there's nothing to be gained from the thread (or I'm already blocked)
Screencap & Retweet: check out the thread, and I expect to be blocked soon
Retweet: check out the thread, I don't expect to be blocked
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I'm often alerted to a thread like that from being tagged on it or having one of my old debunks quoted.
I'd encourage you to support the people who are already there in the thread, not piling on some unsuspecting rube.
They're still people and they're already scared enough.
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I'm watching the Ye/Fuentes/Jones interview now and lemmie tell ya, I hope Ben Shapiro is coming to grips with exactly what about 40% of the Republican Party secretly believes
They're nice to your face as long as you're propagandizing for them, Ben, but they'll line you up with the rest of us the second you're not useful
good fucking lord Ye is reading "jokes written by Owen Benjamin about Ben Shapiro" while Alex Jones anxiously laughs and Nick Fuentes genuinely laughs
The author went out and spoke with them face to face, and so these conspiracy theorists seem nice, and normal.
But going unexplored here is sitting down with them at their computers and seeing what these people are like online, where they gleefully talk about executions.
The article acknowledges that this is where the movement actually exists and gets all of it information, but what exactly are they learning? It's kept pretty vague.
(for instance, 'event 201' is the belief that the United Nations planned and executed the COVID 19 pandemic)
Watch the Water, a QAnon catchphrase from Feb 2018, is trending today, a week after a new "documentary" from QAnon celebrity Stew Peters started using the phrase to promote the baseless idea that COVID-19 comes from snake venom and is being spread through water treatment plants.
"Watch the Water" has been an extremely popular Q catchphrase to cite for years, because the Drop is totally context-free, meaning it could be about anything, so believers make it about anything.
Trump's complaint about having to flush the toilet 10 to 15 times?